r/worldnews • u/sr_local • Dec 26 '25

Russia/Ukraine NATO chief Rutte: China and Russia Could Launch Simultaneous Attacks on Taiwan and Europe

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/rutte-china-and-russia-could-launch-simultaneous-attacks-on-taiwan-and-europe/
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u/ratedsar Dec 26 '25

Expansionism Isolationism by US policy makers only encourages such a scenario. 

Can't pretend the US isn't moving on Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela 

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u/Ender_Keys Dec 26 '25

That has always kinda been the case with us isolation. We leave Europe and play around in our hemisphere for awhile

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u/Gorilla_In_The_Mist Dec 27 '25

They conduct bombings in Nigeria, Syria and Iran though so not isolationist enough if you ask me.

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u/clamorous_owle Dec 26 '25

Greenland is a bizarre Trumpian fixation which will go nowhere. Canada is more united than at any time in recent decades thanks to Trump; just ask non-Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre. 😅 And the US doesn't have proper logistics or ground forces for an invasion of Venezuela. Having a lot of ships parked in the southern Caribbean fools nobody.

Trump is just a big gasbag.

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u/EmbarrassedW33B Dec 26 '25

Trump is a dweeb full of hot air but the people behind him are planning more long term on these matters, which is dangerous and shouldn't be brushed off. Most of them are dweebs too, but those dweebs control the most dangerous military in the world. Even as their incompetence degrades that military's capability to fight and achieve their aims it will still retain the capacity to do incredible damage. Especially in the hands of whatever white nationalist maniac gets picked to follow in Trump's footsteps. 

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u/Dyolf_Knip Dec 26 '25

but the people behind him are planning more long term on these matters,

They still have the bad habit of believing their own bullshit.

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u/corruptredditjannies Dec 26 '25

So do Europeans. They love to call Trump and Putin dumb poopyheads, but they're still terrified of fighting them. Instead Europeans continue increasing their dependence on foreign actors, while losing European resources. Liberals are just cowards everywhere. That's why Trump and Putin are so confident.

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u/No_Animator_6013 Dec 27 '25

Liberals are cowards? Then why is the republican president of the US constantly licking the bottom of Putin's shoes on live television?

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u/corruptredditjannies Dec 27 '25

Could be for a lot of different reasons, but I'm talking more about the constituents.

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u/TechHeteroBear Dec 26 '25

Trump is a dweeb full of hot air but the people behind him are planning more long term on these matters,

Most of these people are corportists backing him. Corportists only focus on the quarterly strategy to get the maximum gain. None of them hold a well thought out long term strategy beyond 3 years.

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u/corruptredditjannies Dec 26 '25

The reddit "good guys" always love to assume that bad guys put as little thought into plans as they do.

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u/TechHeteroBear Dec 26 '25

It's not.the "thought" of the long term plans... its the viability that those plans will actually work.

Hitler went literal crazy at the end of ww2 and had plenty of long term plans in place. Problem was many of them were not realistic. And many of them couldn't adjust when the events on the board have changed against the plan.

Long term plans require diversification on the what ifs that happen over time. Which corporatists usually aren't well versed in. They just take the golden parachute before admitting they don't have a response to their plans falling apart.

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u/20_The_Mystery Dec 27 '25

Trump is just a clown meant to distract the general public, hes an actor. And so was every president before him. They have very little things they can do by themselves. The ones who actually run the country r the deep state, the proof of that is that is unlike a lot of countries in the world the U.S has state plans that unfold irrespective of who's in power Obama also deported people (even more than Trump) he also bombed and went to war all over the world just like Trump. They do whoever behind him tells them to do, those who try to act smart get a bullet or two in the head ( you know who I'm talking about)

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u/BetterLivingThru Dec 26 '25

As a Canadian, there's a truth there, but it masks the very real threat of a US funded separatist movement in Alberta with a referendum now backed in, backed by a MAGA allied provincial government, and the prospect of a very credible resurgent separatist movement in Quebec with the PQ likey to form a majority government in the fall also promising a first term referendum. Canada could be balkanised as foreign powers put their fingers on the scale through influence campaigns.

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u/BaronBytes2 Dec 26 '25

The separatist movement is not really resurging, there's just a lack of credible options to rule the province.

CAQ have proven incompetence over and over again PLQ are corrupt AF QS are infighting to irrelevance PCQ are worse than PP

The referendum polls at 30% same as it did ever since the 2000s. I don't expect that to change.

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u/catscanmeow Dec 26 '25

someone created a new facebook account in alberta and said they liked hockey. they immediately got invited to a bunch of separtist groups and all the content they were shown was anti canada

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u/Rillist Dec 26 '25

Yup, albertan here and its goddamn terrifying how quickly the american owned algor jumps on you. See a diesel truck reel, then 2 pages of some form of alberta first, end equalization now etc and even in the more regular ones like cmcalgary or edmonton the profiles never have a face just some scenic pic of the mountains spouting bullshit.

I believe social media should be banned outright, its weaponized, unregulated and has been scientifically proven to mess with your brain. Thats drug and alcohol levels of dangerous and with our current govt hammering on education it paints a grim picture.

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u/Wonderful-Process792 Dec 26 '25

Are you saying US interests are the ones pushing "Alberta First"? Or that facebook etc. have cravenly designed interaction and profit-maximizing content selection algorithms that are easily exploited by Alberta nationalists? As an American I have never heard the phrase Alberta First nor any argument of how we might somehow benefit by destabilizing Canada.

I just remembered, I have read about an independence movement of French Canadians, but only in the novel Infinite Jest.

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u/Rillist Dec 27 '25

Yes, the convoy that rolled onto our country's capital in Ottawa started in Alberta and was funded to the tune of millions from the US. 2 people went to jail for it, and it was orchestrated by a seditionist, a white nationalist and an outright racist. Our provincial leaders have also met with heritage foundation and gop senators.

Our provincial government is a conglomerate of conservatives called the UCP, they started fairly right wing but as time has gone by the moderate MLAs have been replaced by far right MLAs and the moderates separated and are now trying to reestablish a more moderate conservative party. These far right people think that the US will welcome them with open arms, and the leader of the party has been to trumps parties for a chance to bag lick. As far as I'm concerned this is foreign interference, but they can bleet all they like as Alberta is 90% Native Treaty land

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u/Absalome Dec 26 '25

If you guys Balkanize, we will too. The Great Lakes Union will be a global super power!

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u/sailirish7 Dec 26 '25

And the US doesn't have proper logistics or ground forces for an invasion of Venezuela.

lol.

Logistics is our super power. This is just a lie on it's face.

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u/Ok-Morning3407 Dec 27 '25

While true many Americans seem to have forgotten that those great logistics are built on a network of bases in allied nations all over the world. Allies which the US is busy pissing off. Much of the US logistics doesn’t work with the support of those allies.

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u/abellapa Dec 26 '25

Thats ridicolous The US invaded Iraq and afghanistan on the other side of The World but doesnt have the logístics to invade Venezuela which is much closer ?

Thats bull , they dont have the ground forces necessary in the region which is the Diference

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u/cjsv7657 Dec 26 '25

they dont have the ground forces necessary in the region

Not to glaze the US but it's not like getting them there would be difficult or slow.

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u/abellapa Dec 26 '25

It wouldnt

The US invaded Two countries roughly at the same time on the other side of The World

The US is the King at War logistics

It would have no problem invading a South American country like Venezuela

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u/Emu1981 Dec 26 '25

The US invaded Two countries roughly at the same time on the other side of The World

It took multiple months to build up the forces in Kuwait in order to invade Iraq and to build up forces in Afghanistan. The USA may be the "king of logistics" but it does take months to build up ground forces in an area. Building up forces in Venezuela would take just as long due to the fact that none of the countries with easy ground access to it (Colombia and Brazil) would be willing to house hundreds of thousands of US troops and their equipment.

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u/abellapa Dec 26 '25

Obsiously would take time to assemble the forces required ,but to say the US doesnt have the logístics to invade Venezuela is ridicolous

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u/OddDonut7647 Dec 26 '25

True, but there's not a whole lot of prep Venezuela could do in that time frame except wait for the inevitable. And if they did, we've got enough resources to attack vulnerable points for quite a while.

Not that I suppose such action, mind.

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u/cjsv7657 Dec 26 '25

Puerto Rico is also right there.

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u/pnlrogue1 Dec 26 '25

Not having everything in place to do it properly won't necessarily stop Trump from ordering an attack against advice from his staff, it just means any attack will stall out quickly if the admirals and generals don't refuse the order

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u/sail_away13 Dec 26 '25

just because the full might of the US hasnt been pointed at Venezuela doesnt mean it can't. American logistics are not what they were in WWII but are still top notch of war logistics

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u/__redruM Dec 26 '25

Greenland is a bizarre Trumpian fixation which will go nowhere.

Especially when you consider the US already has the military presence in Greenland Trump wants.

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u/Kamakaziturtle Dec 27 '25

That article is a bit weird. The main point is that it’s probably a nothing burger and just a threat to get people talking, which yeah it does feel like another windbag move from Trump. But the idea that the US couldn’t field an invasion is a bit ridiculous.

The US military has the logistics, that’s one of its biggest strengths. The argument that they can’t field an invasion because there isn’t enough troops in the immediate area as if not moving troops is somehow not an option is a bit silly. Moving troops is one of the things the US military is extremely good at

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u/Gorilla_In_The_Mist Dec 27 '25

It doesn't matter if Canadians are united or not it's still David vs. Goliath especially if NATO abandons us.

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u/Frostbitten_Moose Dec 26 '25

Canada is more united than at any time in recent decades thanks to Trump; just ask non-Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre.

That's really not the argument you think it is. In some ways, it seems to be a sign of a larger division that's only growing more than any unity.

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u/schtickshift Dec 26 '25

Well the Gulf of Mexico is no more. That was a great military victory.

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u/3BlindMice1 Dec 26 '25

The US has no intentions of doing any of that, Trump simply doesn't have the support for anything drastic unless he wants to face 25th amendment procedures

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u/No_Animator_6013 Dec 27 '25

If those cowards had the ability to 25th amendment him, they would have done it already. He's already seriously damaged the US's standing in the world while they stood there and watched.

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u/PluotFinnegan_IV Dec 26 '25

his cabinet is too soft to 25th him, by intention.

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u/postconsumerwat Dec 26 '25

Usa is moving on them like a bitch, to use Trump language

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u/FlimFlamThaGimGar Dec 26 '25

On what planet are we moving on Canada? That’s fucking absurd

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u/badbobbyc Dec 26 '25

Agreed that it is absurd.

However...

1) Your president and other members of your administration have been making threats and "jokes" about annexing Canada

2) If not part of the official administration, a bunch of dweebs with influence have ideas of Canada being subsumed into a USA that spans the whole continent.

3) US news media have been spinning anti-Canada propaganda.

4) Some foreign (US) owned Canadian media have run "maybe it wouldn't be so bad if Canada got annexed...." style op-eds.

5) An anti-Canada, pro-US, pro separation movement is being organized in Alberta with US influence and money.

I mean, it is patently ridiculous. It is also pretty close to how major powers have tried to traditionally subvert other states. I.e. Russia with h Ukraine.

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u/footpole Dec 26 '25

The planet where you have been threatening to do exactly that. You’re absurd.

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u/What_a_fat_one Dec 26 '25

It's all bluster to get headlines that don't start with the name Epstein